Ferliza C.
Contratista
CEBU CITY, July 6 (PIA)-- Government pushes for health,
sanitary and hygiene among schools.
In partnership with the Department of Education
(DepEd-7), Department of Health (DOH-7) and non government
organization Islamic Relief Worldwide, the Water, Sanitation and Health (WASH)
program is being pushed in the Province of Cebu.
According to Dr. Berna Ysulan, DepEd7 OIC health and nutrition
head, there are two units under WASH program, the Nutrition Unit which focuses
on Health, Sanitary and Hygiene and then the Physical Facilities Units on
school facilities.
“With Sanitary and Hygiene on WASH Program, we are already
implementing the essential health care program, there is lesson integration and
teachers manual being produced by our NGO partner given to the teachers,”
Ysulan said.
She said that DepEd passed Deped Order No. 56, on the immediate
construction of hand washing facilities in schools and the implementation of
the health program
Health Care Program has three components which include daily hand
washing, daily tooth brushing and biannual de-worming.
In Physical Facilities which involve school buildings, the DepEd
program is joined by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)
to provide a toilet for every classroom.
“The DepEd already conducted a campaign that every classroom
should have a toilet but there are places that has no access to water,” Ysulan
said.
The toilets can only be used when there are visitors while the
children, she said, go out and look for other places they can use.
Philippine Approach to Total Sanitation (PHATS) already conducted
a school monitoring for the whole Region 7, and there are some schools that
already constructed hand washing facilities.
DPWH is already doing also its own report and recommendation to
solve the water supply and toilet problems among schools. (mbcn/fcc/PIA7-Cebu
with reports from Mariel Torres PIT intern)
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